Well, the story seems not to be 100% sure where it's going, and a lot of times the characters do things that are simply inexplicable. Oh, and most of the action is laughable (Lo Lieh is really too good for all the silliness going on around him). But this has a certain charm. It's like, well, remember those old live-action Disney movies from the 60s and 70s, that used to show up on The Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday…

It really isn't just nostalgia. I saw this in the theater when I was ten. I didn't know anything about genres then, but if I had, I would enthusiastically have said that this set the standard for action/adventure films. Watching it now, more than thirty years later, it is still the standard. It has simply never been equaled. There's not a casting choice, not a plot development, not a line of dialog, not a single frame I would change about…